Samantha Wake

Family communication following a diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy: To tell or not to tell?

Shelby Taylor, Miriam Rodrigues, Gemma Poke, Samantha Wake, Alison McEwen

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF GENETIC COUNSELING

Family communication about genetic information enables informed medical and reproductive decision-making. The literature suggests ..

Genetics, Insurance and Professional Practice: Survey of the Australasian Clinical Genetics Workforce

Jane Tiller, Louise Keogh, Samantha Wake, Martin Delatycki, Margaret Otlowski, Paul Lacaze

Journal article  |  2018  |  FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH

In Australia and New Zealand, by contrast with much of the developed world, insurance companies can use genetic test results to re..

Genetic Counsellors and Private Practice: Professional Turbulence and Common Values

Sarah Collis, Clara Gaff, Samantha Wake, Alison McEwen

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF GENETIC COUNSELING

Genetic counsellors face tensions between past and future identities: between established values and goals, and a broadening scope..

Communicating microarray results of uncertain clinical significance in consultation summary letters and implications for practice

Jean Lillian Paul, Rachel Pope-Couston, Samantha Wake, Trent Burgess, Tiong Yang Tan

Journal article  |  2017  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Letter-writing is an integral practice for genetic health professionals. In Victoria, Australia, patients with a chromosomal varia..

"It gives them more options": preferences for preconception genetic carrier screening for fragile X syndrome in primary healthcare

Alison D Archibald, Chriselle L Hickerton, Samantha A Wake, Alice M Jaques, Jonathan Cohen, Sylvia A Metcalfe

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY GENETICS

This study aims to explore stakeholder views about offering population-based genetic carrier screening for fragile X syndrome. A q..

"It's good to know": Experiences of gene identification and result disclosure in familial epilepsies

Danya F Vears, Karen L Dunn, Samantha A Wake, Ingrid E Scheffer

Journal article  |  2015  |  EPILEPSY RESEARCH

Recognition of the role of genetics in the epilepsies has increased dramatically, impacting on clinical practice across many epile..

Connecting patients, researchers and clinical genetics services: the experiences of participants in the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study (AOCS)

Ashley Crook, Loren Plunkett, Laura E Forrest, Nina Hallowell, Samantha Wake, Kathryn Alsop, Margaret Gleeson, David Bowtell, Gillian Mitchell, Mary-Anne Young

Journal article  |  2015  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Population-based genetic research may produce information that has clinical implications for participants and their family. Resear..

Genetic Counseling Training and Certification in Australasia

AR McEwen, MA Young, SA Wake

Journal article  |  2013  |  JOURNAL OF GENETIC COUNSELING

The development of standards for training and certification is essential to the credibility and integrity of a developing professi..

Educating Genetic Counselors in Australia-Developing a Masters Program

Margaret Sahhar, Jan Hodgson, Samantha Wake

Journal article  |  2013  |  JOURNAL OF GENETIC COUNSELING

In 2005 a publication about genetic counseling training in Australia recommended that a 2 year Masters program be established to b..

"It's about having the choice": Stakeholder perceptions of population-based genetic carrier screening for fragile X syndrome

Alison D Archibald, Chriselle L Hickerton, Alice M Jaques, Samantha Wake, Jonathan Cohen, Sylvia A Metcalfe

Journal article  |  2013  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A

This project explored, the views of key stakeholders regarding population-based genetic carrier screening for fragile X syndrome (..